John Benjamin Dancer:

An Inventory of His Collection at the Harry Ransom Center

Creator:

Dancer, John Benjamin,
1812-1887

Title:

John Benjamin Dancer Collection

Dates:

1764-1928, undated

Extent:

1 document box, 1 oversize box (2.42 linear feet)

Abstract:

Includes one manuscript and one
letter by the English instrument maker, optician, and photographic inventor John
Benjamin Dancer. The bulk of the collection is made of letters received by Dancer
from colleagues (including George Biddell Airy, Charles Darwin, Sir John Herschel,
James Joule, and Charles Piazzi Smyth among others) and materials relating to
Dancer
or his family, including personal family records.

Joan Sibley and Jamie Hawkins-Kirkham, 2011
Note: This finding aid replicates and replaces information
previously available only in a card catalog. Please see the explanatory note at
the
end of this finding aid for information regarding the arrangement of the manuscripts
as well as the abbreviations commonly used in descriptions.